A laboratory technician packages cerebrospinal fluid of meningitis cases to send to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta for further testing.

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Another person has died - this time in Maryland - in the national outbreak of fungal meningitis, while two more Tennesseans were diagnosed with fungal infections linked to tainted spinal steroids, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The number of Tennessee patients infected now stands at 150, according to the CDC report issued Monday. The two new cases ...